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" I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today. "

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" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

" An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. "

" I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage. "

" Courage is found in unlikely places. "

J. R. R. Tolkien

" Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. "

John W. Gardner

" You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' "

" Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. "

" Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. "

" I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. "

" The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life. "

" Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. "

" My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood. "

" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. "

" It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. "

" Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. "

" The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. "

Margaret Heffernan

" Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. "

Eddie Rickenbacker

" I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. "

" War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. "

Nawal El Saadawi

" The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. "

" The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. "

Winston Churchill

" Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. "

" Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. "

" A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. "

Stanley Baldwin

" Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk. "

Emmanuel Macron